Pluto Was A Planet Hats

Pluto was a planet for 76 years, from 1930 until the International Astronomical Union vote on August 24, 2006. The trigger was the discovery of Eris in the Kuiper Belt, and the new definition added a test Pluto failed: a planet must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Alan Stern, who led the New Horizons mission, called the demotion "sloppy," and the Plutonians still contend the vote was improperly conducted. The American Dialect Society named "to pluto," meaning to demote or devalue someone or something, its 2006 Word of the Year. August 24, 2026 was the twentieth anniversary, and Pluto Demoted Day is an observed fun holiday. The merch started within hours of the vote, with listings on craigslist, CafePress and eBay, and bumper stickers such as "Honk if Pluto is still a planet." These Pluto Was a Planet hats are for everyone who learned the mnemonic that ended in Nine Pizzas. PLUTO is the badge. The sentence designs cover that old mnemonic, a memorial dates card, the grudge told to someone younger, a refusal to count to eight, a defense league, a bumper-sticker honk, an unpaid legal defense and a campaign slogan. "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet" already sells as a patch, and it earns a second colorway here, along with the mnemonic. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the planetarium, or give one to the person who still says nine.